Gary Condit

Former California Rep. Gary Condit testified Monday he had nothing to do with Chandra Levy's murder, but refused to address if the two were romantically involved.

"I think we're all entitled to some level of privacy," Condit said Monday in a Washington D.C. courtroom at the trial of Ingmar Guandique, 29, who is charged with murder, kidnapping and attempted sexual assault.

Condit, 62, whose political career was destroyed by the sensational 2001 case, said he and Levy, 24, were on good terms at the time she went missing. Just the week before her disappearance, he helped her make career contacts.

It was a tragedy that ended the life of a young woman and swept up a congressman in a wave of scandal that destroyed his political career.

Nine years later, the trial of Chandra Levy's alleged murderer has begun – and former Democratic Rep. Gary Condit, never named as a police suspect but the center of international attention because of his alleged romantic involvement with Levy, may be called as a witness.

Jury selection started Monday in the trial of Ingmar Guandique, 29, who is charged with murder, kidnapping, attempted sexual assault along with other counts.

A jailed laborer from El Salvador has been charged with first-degree murder in what had been one of the nation's great unsolved mystery cases: the 2001 slaying of Washington intern Chandra Levy.

Ingmar Guandique, who was already serving a 10-year sentence for attacking two women in Washington D.C.'s Rock Creek Park – where Levy's remains were found in 2002 – first came under suspicion that year, but police were hindered by a lack of physical evidence due to the severe weathering of Levy's skeletal remains.

At the time, Guandique and his lawyer said that he had nothing to do with Levy's death. He will now be brought to D.C. to face trial, reports The Washington Post.

RELEASED: Former President Bill Clinton, 58, was released from New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Monday, four days after surgery to remove fluid and scar tissue that accumulated in his chest after his heart-bypass operation last September. "Hillary, Chelsea and I are very grateful to the medical team that cared for me at the hospital and we deeply appreciate all the prayers and good wishes we've received in recent days," Clinton said in a statement. He is expected to recuperate in his home in Chappaqua, N.Y. The normal recovery time is four to six weeks, say doctors.

Former Congressman Gary Condit has denied having an affair with murdered intern Chandra Levy, contradicting allegations from police and Levy's family that he did, according to tapes obtained by the Today show.